Previously unknown Andy Warhol artwork, made on a 1985 Commodore Amiga computer, was recently extracted from obsolete floppy disks. The Andy Warhol Museum said in a statement released Thursday that a ...

Most business software sold these days either comes on a disc or is available on the Internet as an ISO image that you can burn to a CD or DVD. Nevertheless, many older applications or drivers may ...

A multidisciplinary group at Carnegie Mellon University has recovered three new digital images produced by Andy Warhol in 1985. The files were found on “Amiga floppy disks stored in the archives ...

I have a problem with my floppy drive: anytime it tries to access a disk in Windows 2000 the entire system crashes (ie cursor freezes, floppy disk drive light is lit and the drive itself is making ...

As we all look across a sea of lifeless, nearly identically-styled consumer goods, a few of us have become nostalgic for a time when products like stereo equipment, phones, appliances, homes, cars, ...

Many government agencies, U.S. and international alike, have a reputation for sometimes using tools that are horribly out of date. But according to a report from a congressional watchdog agency, a ...

Floppy disks have been around for decades—over 50 years!—and while the storage medium is largely obsolete, it's not completely dead. Just ask Tom Persky, who after several decades still maintains a ...

Mac software used to be distributed on 3.5-inch floppy disks. Now, using the MacDisk utility, you can read them on modern Windows computers. When the Macintosh was first released in 1984, it didn't ...

The Japanese government is finally doing away with 3.5-inch floppy disks, almost two years after it announced its intention to scrap them. “We have won the war on floppy disks,” Taro Kono, Japan’s ...

Booting into Kolibri OS . Kolibri OS comes in multiple versions and the smallest of those is a floppy disk image that only ...

When Mark Necaise got down to his last four floppy disks at a rodeo in Mississippi in February, he started to worry. Necaise travels to horse shows around the state, offering custom embroidery on ...